Match-igniter



(No Model.)

J. PUSEY! MATCH IGNITER. I

No. 271,737. Patented Feb. 6,1883.

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' ilNiTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA PUSEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TMATCHI-IGNITER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,737, dated February 6, 1883.

Application filed August 9, 1882.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSHUA PUSEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Match-Igniters, of which the following is a Specification, reference being bad to the. accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation-of the specifically preferred form of the invention; andFig. 2 1s a transverse section on the line X, Fig. 1.

Thenatureot' my device is a luminous matchigniter of improved construction.

Heretot'ore1haveusedaluminousigniterconsisting of a card coated on its face with the wellknown sulphide of calcium or luminous paint, which becomes visible in the dark after exposure to light, in connection with an adjacent attached igniting-surface of sand. The objections to that device are that it gets clogged with use, is not readily cleaned, and soon wears away and becomes unsightly. The strikingsurface being also wholly outside the luminous part, in the dark its limits are not defined, and

end I secure in a suitable frame, F, a plate of wood or card-hoard,(l, theface ofwhich iscoated with the luminous substance P, and plates of glass B are secured in the frame in front oflattel, as shown.

The operation and mode of using the device are obvious. When the head of a match is drawn smartly across the glass plates, in passing from one to the other it strikes against the edge of the latter,.especially as the first plate is apt to spring inward a little from the pressure, thus bringing the match sharply against the edge of the next platein gliding from one to the other. 1 have shown three such plates,

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two of which are parallel and the upper one at right angles to them; buttwo only may be used, or a single one having lines or grooves made therein.

In order to render the-article more attractive, a. non-lumii'ious design--such as the matchscratching pigs, shown in Fig. 1-way be printed upon the said luminous surface of the plate 0; or the latter may be discarded and the luminous substance be applied directly upon the front surface of the frame F.

Instead of the non-luminous design upon a luminous ground, the required luminous surface may be had by a luminous design upon the non-luminous ground of the frame orcard C. The frame in the present instance is made of a piece of thin sheet metal, bent over at its edges to form the flanges A, which serve to hold the card 0 and the translucent plates in position. location by means of nails or tacks passed The device is secured in the desired 7 through the rings It at the sides of the frame.

Having described my invention, I claim as new 1. The frame, the translucent igniting-plates contained therein, and the luminous surface v JOSHUA PUSEY. Witnesses:

LISLE STOKES,

JOHN BURKHARDT. 

